EID weighing and TB testing

So I’ve just upgraded to a tru test ezi weigh 7i from a very old eziweigh 2 as the old system kept playing up and showing error codes, the new setup is fantastic, I have also been looking at the trutest XRP2 eid pannel, my question is when we are TB testing the main dairy herds through the crush I’d like to scan every cow, and when the vet is jabbing them input the skin measurements into the system to completely eliminate the paperwork side of things and then email the file over to them at the end of testing, is that something that is possible?
 

Kiwi Pete

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Livestock Farmer
Easily. Simple metrics can be recorded alongside EID numbers on (for example) a smartphone app and then email the file away.
For simple numbers I use CSV files but someone a bit more tech-savvy would be better to advise you - I email my liveweight gains through to the farmers I source my stores from so they can evaluate their bulls, is one example that springs to mind.
 

CORNFLAKE

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Warwickshire
Are the vets allowed to scan ear tags and use them for TB testing. Ours said he has to physically read the tag and write the measurements on the sheet. The powers that be say we should use technology more yet seem reluctant to use it.
 

Frank-the-Wool

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Are the vets allowed to scan ear tags and use them for TB testing. Ours said he has to physically read the tag and write the measurements on the sheet. The powers that be say we should use technology more yet seem reluctant to use it.

This is true because as yet we do not have EID tags in cattle that are "official".
When the new system starts some time in 2019/2020 then there will be a new numbering system and I guess at some point there will be a change over.
Defra are planning to consult early next year as to the time period when we switch over the historic herd to EID and this is where the potential for expense and confusion could occur. I will try to explain what my understanding is that the official line is to be.

The consultation will be over whether we move to all EID in 12 months after the switch or 30 months. The cheapest option would be to go for 30 months as by far the majority of cattle are killed by the time they reach that age. However if we wanted to gain the maximum advantage from EID in cattle it could be argued that changing in 12 months would be of benefit. (I am only being the messenger here!)

Moving to EID will have tremendous benefits for all concerned, especially those wishing to record weights and TB tests and anything else where you need to record individual treatments. It will also remove the need for passports.
To ensure a smooth transition though we will need to get all the older animals on to the same system.

Remember that this change to EID will also be part of the LIP (Livestock Information Program or LIS Livestock Information Service).
We have to move to a new numbering system for cattle and sheep as we have nearly run out of numbers for the large producers and there is a wish by Defra and apparently farmers to keep the same Herd/Flock numbers. To do this the check digit on cattle is being removed, it is complicated why this has to occur but it has to do with the number of digits you can fit on a chip and there is a worldwide convention through ISO as to this format.
There is also a further complication that under EU rules if you put in a new identifier then you have to remove the old one and you cannot have two EID chips in the one animal and this is where there is potential for those people already using EID to have a lot of expense and confusion, which I believe is unnecessary. I will try to explain later.

The plan so far is that the older (historic) animal will be retagged with a WHITE tag which has the chip in it, externally it will have printed on it the new number and the old visual number. It is also being suggested that ALL cattle EID tags will be white. Now if you talk to any manufacturer of tags or identifiers, white is not a good colour to use as it will in time degrade and the printing on it fade out. This was why yellow was used for sheep tags. Logically yellow should be reserved for EID in all species.

Now those of us who already use computers will know that they can easily be programmed to link one code to another code. It would be far easier to link the old animal ID to a new number which could be allocated to it for the new LIP and use an unallocated EID chip, this would be cross referenced to the original animal number. The advantage of using this system would be that those who are already using management EID would still be able to use it and cross reference to the new EID.
This blank chip (they are all pre numbered and unique) could be a colour such as white with the old and new numbers on as they only need to be fitted when the animal leaves the farm. Bearing in mind that most of these will be cows or bulls that will be heading to slaughter.

We all know that fitting new tags to older animals is extremely difficult and potentially dangerous as well. Trying to get a new tag through a new part of an old ear is almost impossible unless you punch a hole in it first.
Defra and the EU think there is potential for fraud if we are cutting out and putting in new numbers, however this is ridiculous as they already know which animals we have on our farms.

Please all be aware that while moving to a new system with EID for animals that are born from say 1/1/2020 will be easy, the numbering and change to EID of the historic herd could be a mess if Defra's ideas are allowed to get through. A little common sense needs to be applied not perhaps the official regulatory line!
 

Old Tip

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Location
Cumbria
Thanks for explaining all this @Frank-the-Wool, as you say there is little chance of fraud if we change the tags in older cattle as they already know what we have on the farm. I just hope there is an option to use a sheep style small tag as they are more likely to last the life of the animal than the big ones we use now which barely last a few years. Some of my cows in there teens will have had three sets of tags in their life time. Also the bvd test tags seem to be very poor and snap in the middle easily.
 

egbert

Member
Livestock Farmer
The whole wretched idea makes me sick.
Cattle are worth, in real terms (some years 'actual terms') less and less. Inventing new ways to spend money on them is not going to solve that.
(You want EID?....fine, have it. Don't force it on me)
Minette is absolutely positive this will be simple, and a breeze, where you tag a calf, and upload all the info on some gadget -or possibly 2 gadgets-, and send it off instantly.
She evidently hasn't tried tagging Galloway calves on a windswept hill in the rain, with no signal and the cow chasing you round the gorse bushes.

TB testing using (another) gadget? hmm. I've seen vets drop their electric clippers/jabbing gear etc into the porridge plenty of times...the resultant false positives are bad enough, but I'm not altogether sure a techno gadget will survive long in this regime.
My pens are on outdoors, in the drift lane that services the inbye fields. I can't put the pens elsewhere without changing the entire layout of the property, i could, arguably put a building right over them, including the bridlepath that runs through? Hmm...I'll ask the National Park.
There are days when we have to test midwinter, in the pouring rain and gales....water runs right underfoot as we work. Locums can't believe that (a) we're prepared to carry on, and (b) they've spent x years at vet school to find themselves in such a place.
We gently explain that if we fail to test on time, our payments are stopped, and I'd soon be looking for alternative employment and accommodation.

The replacement for lost tags protocol is a curious matter about which I've heard nothing yet.
I've had bulls who rub tags out of their lugs within weeks.
Some we give up tagging until they leave the premises, as it only upsets them to keep putting new plastic in their ears.
I think one infamous beast took pleasure in removing them within the week.
He went without for years, but luckily, the neighbours he used to enjoy visiting (he was a very sociable chap) knew perfectly well who he was, and who to phone.
i'm very unlikely to try and keep tags in such beasts, but what about the others which shed them? If we have a blitz, and get every single one up to speed, there'll be 20 missing by the next test. (The ketchums are the real identifier, ironically)

Satisfying international rules to protect export markets? (I'm avoiding mentioning the current raison sodding detre of EU rules for obvious reasons).
I was on a farm overseas recently, and politely asked if the guy had to tag any of his beasts (very few were). Oh, not until they leave the farm came the reply -a wholly reasonable standpoint. It hardly matters until that point does it? (That country relies on exports).

Paperless? That's a joke. Anyone without the right gadgets-and ability to use them-, or phone signal, will be reliant on a fallback system anyway.
It's another bitter irony that the dept who currently run the paper system are the only dept under DEFRAs umbrella with whom you can sort out a problem with by one phone call.
That'll never do will it?

And are medicine records going to go over to this system? Reports vary

Are sheep records going over to this system? God forbid
Again, anyone who thinks it is a good idea spends scant time on the hill with a gale force wind blowing sleet in their face.
Perhaps they think all livestock farming should happen in dry lowland districts, or indoors.

One thing I am quite sure of, and that is that there's some very optimistic tag manufacturers about - some which you could phone today, and order tags without a warning that said tags will soon be redundant. Scheming dishonest little scumbags (we have tested this, and more than one company will happily supply 2-3 years worth of tags without mentioning what they must already know. Do say if you want names....)

It is a matter of great regret that I don't feel i have a professional lobby group trying to stop this baloney. I pay 2-3 lots of subs, to organisations who -apparently- know more about my business than I do.
I don't want sympathy or pity, (and i care not one whit for anyones derision). I want to be heard.
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
The whole wretched idea makes me sick.
Cattle are worth, in real terms (some years 'actual terms') less and less. Inventing new ways to spend money on them is not going to solve that.
(You want EID?....fine, have it. Don't force it on me)
Minette is absolutely positive this will be simple, and a breeze, where you tag a calf, and upload all the info on some gadget -or possibly 2 gadgets-, and send it off instantly.
She evidently hasn't tried tagging Galloway calves on a windswept hill in the rain, with no signal and the cow chasing you round the gorse bushes.

TB testing using (another) gadget? hmm. I've seen vets drop their electric clippers/jabbing gear etc into the porridge plenty of times...the resultant false positives are bad enough, but I'm not altogether sure a techno gadget will survive long in this regime.
My pens are on outdoors, in the drift lane that services the inbye fields. I can't put the pens elsewhere without changing the entire layout of the property, i could, arguably put a building right over them, including the bridlepath that runs through? Hmm...I'll ask the National Park.
There are days when we have to test midwinter, in the pouring rain and gales....water runs right underfoot as we work. Locums can't believe that (a) we're prepared to carry on, and (b) they've spent x years at vet school to find themselves in such a place.
We gently explain that if we fail to test on time, our payments are stopped, and I'd soon be looking for alternative employment and accommodation.

The replacement for lost tags protocol is a curious matter about which I've heard nothing yet.
I've had bulls who rub tags out of their lugs within weeks.
Some we give up tagging until they leave the premises, as it only upsets them to keep putting new plastic in their ears.
I think one infamous beast took pleasure in removing them within the week.
He went without for years, but luckily, the neighbours he used to enjoy visiting (he was a very sociable chap) knew perfectly well who he was, and who to phone.
i'm very unlikely to try and keep tags in such beasts, but what about the others which shed them? If we have a blitz, and get every single one up to speed, there'll be 20 missing by the next test. (The ketchums are the real identifier, ironically)

Satisfying international rules to protect export markets? (I'm avoiding mentioning the current raison sodding detre of EU rules for obvious reasons).
I was on a farm overseas recently, and politely asked if the guy had to tag any of his beasts (very few were). Oh, not until they leave the farm came the reply -a wholly reasonable standpoint. It hardly matters until that point does it? (That country relies on exports).

Paperless? That's a joke. Anyone without the right gadgets-and ability to use them-, or phone signal, will be reliant on a fallback system anyway.
It's another bitter irony that the dept who currently run the paper system are the only dept under DEFRAs umbrella with whom you can sort out a problem with by one phone call.
That'll never do will it?

And are medicine records going to go over to this system? Reports vary

Are sheep records going over to this system? God forbid
Again, anyone who thinks it is a good idea spends scant time on the hill with a gale force wind blowing sleet in their face.
Perhaps they think all livestock farming should happen in dry lowland districts, or indoors.

One thing I am quite sure of, and that is that there's some very optimistic tag manufacturers about - some which you could phone today, and order tags without a warning that said tags will soon be redundant. Scheming dishonest little scumbags (we have tested this, and more than one company will happily supply 2-3 years worth of tags without mentioning what they must already know. Do say if you want names....)

It is a matter of great regret that I don't feel i have a professional lobby group trying to stop this baloney. I pay 2-3 lots of subs, to organisations who -apparently- know more about my business than I do.
I don't want sympathy or pity, (and i care not one whit for anyones derision). I want to be heard.

Biggest plus one of the year. Some lowland / gentry farmers should try coming on the sharp end of extensively grazed / all year and Wintered hill cows and try it. You tag in the field, you have one opportunity.

I'm just hoping for visible external numbers and the ability to upload stuff manually via a web based solution.

If I divide Red Tractor Assurance, SAC Premium Health Scheme and annual testing, PFLA and two breed society costs, it comes to a pretty sum per calf before they've eaten their first bale or had their first wormer jag
 
My vets have no problem with us presenting them out paperwork and transferring it over to the official paperwork. We all work together so the test is nice and relaxed for man and beast. Had the ministry come check on us before and if you talk common sense to them they soon get on your side.
 
Our vets now come to us with a small hand held device, we type in last 3 digits of tag, 90% of time only 1 animal shows up, type 2 readings and press enter. Works brilliantly, Less mistakes by a factor of 5.
If this machine could read eid as well that side of system would be good.
Why are we talking of EID tags, surely they should be a chip under the skin. Less losses, fraud more difficult.
Cost?
Vet required?
So the government should pay.
My biggest concern is the soft ware in the govt. offices and the monkeys that run it.
 

egbert

Member
Livestock Farmer
Our vets now come to us with a small hand held device, we type in last 3 digits of tag, 90% of time only 1 animal shows up, type 2 readings and press enter. Works brilliantly, Less mistakes by a factor of 5.
If this machine could read eid as well that side of system would be good.
Why are we talking of EID tags, surely they should be a chip under the skin. Less losses, fraud more difficult.
Cost?
Vet required?
So the government should pay.
My biggest concern is the soft ware in the govt. offices and the monkeys that run it.
We've seen one once, and it was OK (not without issues though)
The problem will come when it gets dropped/banged against the rails/effed up in the wet
 

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
So I’ve just upgraded to a tru test ezi weigh 7i from a very old eziweigh 2 as the old system kept playing up and showing error codes, the new setup is fantastic, I have also been looking at the trutest XRP2 eid pannel, my question is when we are TB testing the main dairy herds through the crush I’d like to scan every cow, and when the vet is jabbing them input the skin measurements into the system to completely eliminate the paperwork side of things and then email the file over to them at the end of testing, is that something that is possible?


Shearwells stock recorder has a TB test recording function on it,
Haven't used it yet but am weighing cattle with it every test
 

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
The whole wretched idea makes me sick.
Cattle are worth, in real terms (some years 'actual terms') less and less. Inventing new ways to spend money on them is not going to solve that.
(You want EID?....fine, have it. Don't force it on me)
Minette is absolutely positive this will be simple, and a breeze, where you tag a calf, and upload all the info on some gadget -or possibly 2 gadgets-, and send it off instantly.
She evidently hasn't tried tagging Galloway calves on a windswept hill in the rain, with no signal and the cow chasing you round the gorse bushes.

TB testing using (another) gadget? hmm. I've seen vets drop their electric clippers/jabbing gear etc into the porridge plenty of times...the resultant false positives are bad enough, but I'm not altogether sure a techno gadget will survive long in this regime.
My pens are on outdoors, in the drift lane that services the inbye fields. I can't put the pens elsewhere without changing the entire layout of the property, i could, arguably put a building right over them, including the bridlepath that runs through? Hmm...I'll ask the National Park.
There are days when we have to test midwinter, in the pouring rain and gales....water runs right underfoot as we work. Locums can't believe that (a) we're prepared to carry on, and (b) they've spent x years at vet school to find themselves in such a place.
We gently explain that if we fail to test on time, our payments are stopped, and I'd soon be looking for alternative employment and accommodation.

The replacement for lost tags protocol is a curious matter about which I've heard nothing yet.
I've had bulls who rub tags out of their lugs within weeks.
Some we give up tagging until they leave the premises, as it only upsets them to keep putting new plastic in their ears.
I think one infamous beast took pleasure in removing them within the week.
He went without for years, but luckily, the neighbours he used to enjoy visiting (he was a very sociable chap) knew perfectly well who he was, and who to phone.
i'm very unlikely to try and keep tags in such beasts, but what about the others which shed them? If we have a blitz, and get every single one up to speed, there'll be 20 missing by the next test. (The ketchums are the real identifier, ironically)

Satisfying international rules to protect export markets? (I'm avoiding mentioning the current raison sodding detre of EU rules for obvious reasons).
I was on a farm overseas recently, and politely asked if the guy had to tag any of his beasts (very few were). Oh, not until they leave the farm came the reply -a wholly reasonable standpoint. It hardly matters until that point does it? (That country relies on exports).

Paperless? That's a joke. Anyone without the right gadgets-and ability to use them-, or phone signal, will be reliant on a fallback system anyway.
It's another bitter irony that the dept who currently run the paper system are the only dept under DEFRAs umbrella with whom you can sort out a problem with by one phone call.
That'll never do will it?

And are medicine records going to go over to this system? Reports vary

Are sheep records going over to this system? God forbid
Again, anyone who thinks it is a good idea spends scant time on the hill with a gale force wind blowing sleet in their face.
Perhaps they think all livestock farming should happen in dry lowland districts, or indoors.

One thing I am quite sure of, and that is that there's some very optimistic tag manufacturers about - some which you could phone today, and order tags without a warning that said tags will soon be redundant. Scheming dishonest little scumbags (we have tested this, and more than one company will happily supply 2-3 years worth of tags without mentioning what they must already know. Do say if you want names....)

It is a matter of great regret that I don't feel i have a professional lobby group trying to stop this baloney. I pay 2-3 lots of subs, to organisations who -apparently- know more about my business than I do.
I don't want sympathy or pity, (and i care not one whit for anyones derision). I want to be heard.


Just to put one thing to bed, you don't need signal to record anything out in the field, if doing it electronically on your phone or a handheld like a stock recorder, all that's needed is battery on the device,
The actual upload to any sort of BCMS or similar would be done at home.

Even if your devices in the field ran out of battery you'd just record on paper and imput on the computer...... just like right now, a chip in the tag doesn't change that process, providing there are still visual numbers, which i can't see changing.


The whole "needing signal in field" is a complete myth.


I think any new system must have a paper alternative for those who really don't want to use computers.
 

egbert

Member
Livestock Farmer
Just to put one thing to bed, you don't need signal to record anything out in the field, if doing it electronically on your phone or a handheld like a stock recorder, all that's needed is battery on the device,
The actual upload to any sort of BCMS or similar would be done at home.

Even if your devices in the field ran out of battery you'd just record on paper and imput on the computer...... just like right now, a chip in the tag doesn't change that process, providing there are still visual numbers, which i can't see changing.


The whole "needing signal in field" is a complete myth.


I think any new system must have a paper alternative for those who really don't want to use computers.

I hear what you say mate, although in the which case, there's no gain for me is there?
(and I promise you that MB was gushing how good it was, because it can be done then and there.
When challenged about signal issues etc, I understand her personal signal seem to run out suddenly) (I had sent a trusted runner to ask these questions).

Better yet was one of my 2 local livestock representatives, who bluntly told me that farmers in my situation shouldn't be catered for at all. (To be fair, he's a bit hard of thinking, so I don't hold it against him)


and I've another one for you......a local mart is reporting increasing numbers of sheep eids failing with age -anyone else get this?
It came to light when most of our own draft ewes couldn't be read in the pen, and we got an incomplete report.
We're going to have to manually read them instead anyway......what an utter farce.

(My respect for our principal lobby group is at an all time low).
 

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
I hear what you say mate, although in the which case, there's no gain for me is there?
(and I promise you that MB was gushing how good it was, because it can be done then and there.
When challenged about signal issues etc, I understand her personal signal seem to run out suddenly) (I had sent a trusted runner to ask these questions).

Better yet was one of my 2 local livestock representatives, who bluntly told me that farmers in my situation shouldn't be catered for at all. (To be fair, he's a bit hard of thinking, so I don't hold it against him)


and I've another one for you......a local mart is reporting increasing numbers of sheep eids failing with age -anyone else get this?
It came to light when most of our own draft ewes couldn't be read in the pen, and we got an incomplete report.
We're going to have to manually read them instead anyway......what an utter farce.

(My respect for our principal lobby group is at an all time low).


Probably no benefit to you over the current visual ear tag/ BCMS system we have.

I'm just trying to dispel the myth that EID only works in mobile signal (the EID stock recorders and stick readers don't even use mobile signal, they have to be uploaded to the office puter).
Sorry it's really a bit of a irrelevant point to folk who don't want to use EID..... it just bugs me when I see it being written :LOL:

Regards old sheep tags not getting read, I've seen the same, but its only the very very oldest tags,
And even then, the stock recorder will read them but the stick reader and the markets stick reader won't read them, so maybe a equipment issue too.

Of course get the odd failed chip in any age of tag, that nothing will read.
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
The whole wretched idea makes me sick.
Cattle are worth, in real terms (some years 'actual terms') less and less. Inventing new ways to spend money on them is not going to solve that.
(You want EID?....fine, have it. Don't force it on me)
Minette is absolutely positive this will be simple, and a breeze, where you tag a calf, and upload all the info on some gadget -or possibly 2 gadgets-, and send it off instantly.
She evidently hasn't tried tagging Galloway calves on a windswept hill in the rain, with no signal and the cow chasing you round the gorse bushes.

TB testing using (another) gadget? hmm. I've seen vets drop their electric clippers/jabbing gear etc into the porridge plenty of times...the resultant false positives are bad enough, but I'm not altogether sure a techno gadget will survive long in this regime.
My pens are on outdoors, in the drift lane that services the inbye fields. I can't put the pens elsewhere without changing the entire layout of the property, i could, arguably put a building right over them, including the bridlepath that runs through? Hmm...I'll ask the National Park.
There are days when we have to test midwinter, in the pouring rain and gales....water runs right underfoot as we work. Locums can't believe that (a) we're prepared to carry on, and (b) they've spent x years at vet school to find themselves in such a place.
We gently explain that if we fail to test on time, our payments are stopped, and I'd soon be looking for alternative employment and accommodation.

The replacement for lost tags protocol is a curious matter about which I've heard nothing yet.
I've had bulls who rub tags out of their lugs within weeks.
Some we give up tagging until they leave the premises, as it only upsets them to keep putting new plastic in their ears.
I think one infamous beast took pleasure in removing them within the week.
He went without for years, but luckily, the neighbours he used to enjoy visiting (he was a very sociable chap) knew perfectly well who he was, and who to phone.
i'm very unlikely to try and keep tags in such beasts, but what about the others which shed them? If we have a blitz, and get every single one up to speed, there'll be 20 missing by the next test. (The ketchums are the real identifier, ironically)

Satisfying international rules to protect export markets? (I'm avoiding mentioning the current raison sodding detre of EU rules for obvious reasons).
I was on a farm overseas recently, and politely asked if the guy had to tag any of his beasts (very few were). Oh, not until they leave the farm came the reply -a wholly reasonable standpoint. It hardly matters until that point does it? (That country relies on exports).

Paperless? That's a joke. Anyone without the right gadgets-and ability to use them-, or phone signal, will be reliant on a fallback system anyway.
It's another bitter irony that the dept who currently run the paper system are the only dept under DEFRAs umbrella with whom you can sort out a problem with by one phone call.
That'll never do will it?

And are medicine records going to go over to this system? Reports vary

Are sheep records going over to this system? God forbid
Again, anyone who thinks it is a good idea spends scant time on the hill with a gale force wind blowing sleet in their face.
Perhaps they think all livestock farming should happen in dry lowland districts, or indoors.

One thing I am quite sure of, and that is that there's some very optimistic tag manufacturers about - some which you could phone today, and order tags without a warning that said tags will soon be redundant. Scheming dishonest little scumbags (we have tested this, and more than one company will happily supply 2-3 years worth of tags without mentioning what they must already know. Do say if you want names....)

It is a matter of great regret that I don't feel i have a professional lobby group trying to stop this baloney. I pay 2-3 lots of subs, to organisations who -apparently- know more about my business than I do.
I don't want sympathy or pity, (and i care not one whit for anyones derision). I want to be heard.


Very good post. You have covered many points that are important and not being considered.

Standard flag tags don’t have good enough retention now let alone an eid tag that are already known to have poor retention. It is a poor show that some tag manufacturers have better retention than others and that this data isn’t easily made available to farmers if at all. Why should I be tagging and animal for someone else’s benefit? How many holes in an ear is acceptable bearing in mind each tag needs virgin ear? (we stop at two and then the last tag when they leave the holding). EID tags should have a lifetime guarantee for readability and at least a five year retention guarantee or don’t bother.

This ear tag malarkey is crap. Really crap. Get the retention good and then I’d give it more consideration. Until then perhaps they can go and p1ss someone else off for a while.
 

Poorbuthappy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
Our vets now come to us with a small hand held device, we type in last 3 digits of tag, 90% of time only 1 animal shows up, type 2 readings and press enter. Works brilliantly, Less mistakes by a factor of 5.
If this machine could read eid as well that side of system would be good.
Why are we talking of EID tags, surely they should be a chip under the skin. Less losses, fraud more difficult.
Cost?
Vet required?
So the government should pay.
My biggest concern is the soft ware in the govt. offices and the monkeys that run it.
Our vets bring a pda type device too. The job is quicker with 1 less person required. Mrs PBH no longer required for tb testing. Easy to check what's been done and no communication issues with tag numbers.

Ref the chip under the skin it is always said this is unsuitable for animals entering the food chain due to chip migration issues.
 

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